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Larger contactor area increases low-frequency vibratory sensitivity in hairy skin [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Background In research, assessing vibratory cutaneous sensitivity is an important research branch to quantify various diseases or to develop devices for pattern recognition. The measured vibration perception thresholds (VPTs), however, are subjective and
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The UltraS: an emerging social movement [PDF]
, 2009 In recent years, there has been a rise in the conflict between the Italian police forces and football fans. This situation is a result of the resurgence of the UltraS (the S capital is a neologism of this study to suggest neo-fascist oriented fans' and ...
Armstrong, Gary, Testa, Alberto
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017 Social movement researchers have been interested in how forms of collective action advance social change. This entry presents four main research traditions that study the ways in which social movements aim to achieve their mission, namely, by mobilizing resources, taking advantage of political opportunities, framing issues in advantageous ways, and ...
Hensmans, Manuel, Van Bommel, Koen
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Placing large group relations into pedestrian dynamics: psychological crowds in counterflow [PDF]
, 2020 Understanding influences on pedestrian movement is important to accurately simulate crowd behaviour, yet little research has explored the psychological factors that influence interactions between large groups in counterflow scenarios.
Drury, John +2 more
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How Age, Cognitive Function and Gender Affect Bimanual Force Control
Frontiers in Physiology, 2020 Coordinated bimanual control depends on information processing in different intra- and interhemispheric networks that differ with respect to task symmetry and laterality of execution.
Julian Rudisch +9 more
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Through the Kinesthetic Lens : Observation of Social Attunement in Autism Spectrum Disorders [PDF]
, 2017 © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).This paper will ...
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Evolutionary Psychology, 2016 Research from evolutionary psychology suggests that the mere presence of eye images can promote prosocial behavior. However, the “eye images effect” is a source of considerable debate, and findings across studies have yielded somewhat inconsistent ...
Zoi Manesi +2 more
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European Review of Aging and Physical Activity, 2017 Upper extremity motor performance declines with increasing age. However, older adults need to maintain, learn new and relearn known motor tasks. Research with young adults indicated that regular and acute physical activity might facilitate motor ...
Lena Hübner, Claudia Voelcker-Rehage
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Scientific Reports, 2022 The social isolation and the subsequent, increased use of Social Networking Sites due to the COVID-19 pandemic have had an impact on subjective well-being around the world. The present longitudinal study examined whether changes in psychological distress
Rubinia Celeste Bonfanti +3 more
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The space of social movements [PDF]
Social Movement Studies, 2019 The article defines the concept of ‘space of social movements’, that describes the relatively autonomous microcosm of practice and meaning in which contentious mobilizations are linked by various r...
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